Friday Night Film Series

The Friends of the Thomaston Public Library present:
Bread and Tulips
Friday, May 29th
6:30 p.m.
Thomaston Academy Building, room 208

An unhappy housewife (Licia Maglietta) taken for granted by her philandering, self-centered husband (Antonio Catania) finds bella fortuna when she hitchhikes to Venice and starts to construct a new life for herself. Blossoming with her newfound independence, the woman begins a tentative relationship with a lonely, suicidal waiter (Bruno Ganz) that bodes well for both of them.

Doors and Bookstore open at 6:00. Admission is free but donations are gratefully accepted. Light refreshments will be served. For more information or directions, contact the Thomaston Public Library at (207) 354-2453

Friday Night Film Series

The Friends of the Thomaston Public Library Present:

Roman Holiday
Friday, May 22nd
6:30 p.m.
Room 208, Thomaston Academy Building

Audrey Hepburn (in an Oscar-winning performance) stars as European princess who goes AWOL in Rome and is soon taken under the wing of tabloid journalist Gregory Peck and his photographer sidekick Eddie Albert. She thinks the boys don't suspect who she really is . . . but they're clued in and sense a sensational story if they can just keep Audrey's handlers from retrieving her too soon. The essence of 1950s chic.

Doors and Bookstore open at 6:00, and light refreshments will be served. Admission is free to all Friday Night Film Series movies, and donations are gratefully accepted. For more information call the Thomaston Public Library at (207) 354-2453.

Open House

Open House Membership Drive

Saturday, May 9th
11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

One Day Only - Free Library Membership for Out of Town Patrons! (regular cost $15.00)

Hot Dogs in the Parking Lot!

One Day Only - Everything in the Bookstore 1/2 off!

For more information, call the library at (207) 354-2453 or e-mail us at TPL@thomaston.lib.me.us

For directions, visit:
www.thomaston.lib.me.us/open_house.html

Origami for Children

Tuesday, March 17th

3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Origami Workshop

Local student Katie Mcguirl will lead interested children in an origami workshop in the Children's Library.  Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper to create the shapes of animals, plants - anything you can imagine.  Katie will teach us how to make basic origami shapes and animals.  Refreshments will be provided, and this event is free of charge.

Muscongus Bay Atlas Exhibit!

The Thomaston Public Library is pleased to present

The Muscongus Bay Atlas Exhibit

Opening Night: Saturday, March 14th

6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

FREE Admission

Join us for refreshments and brief presentations from local figures as we unveil twenty four new full color maps of the Muscongus Bay Region, all courtesy of the Quebec Labrador Foundation. These large maps are all from the new Muscongus Bay Atlas, an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to know more about the area. The atlas contains a great deal more than maps, with full pages of text facing each of the twenty four maps.

The exhibit will remain on display in the library until April 8th, and will be fully available to the public during that time.

For more information, contact Amanda LaBelle at 832-8109 or alabelle@qlf.org, or contact the library at 354-2453.

Town Meeting, February 10

The Town of Thomaston will hold a special town meeting to vote on the TIF district proposal.  The special meeting will be held at 7:00 p.m. in Watts Hall.

Directly before the vote will be an hour long public hearing on the TIF proposal, beginning at 6:00 p.m.  Any town resident may bring questions about the proposal and ask the town selectmen directly.

The TIF (Tax Increment Finance) district proposal is to reclassify the Thomaston Green (the former Maine State Prison site) and other parts of the town as a TIF District, which will meaning making improvements to the area with the assumption that tax revenue generated from stores and retailers which build there will be retroactively used to pay for the improvements.

For more information about the town meeting or the TIF district, contact the Thomaston Town Office at 354-6107, or call the library at 354-2453.

Tax Forms Now Available

2008 Tax Forms
Now Available

The forms may be found on the round table on the main floor of the library, just in front of the circulation desk.

If you are unable to find the form or instruction booklet you need at the library, you can print federal forms online at:

http://www.irs.gov/app/picklist/list/formsInstructions.html

Maine state tax forms are available from: http://www.maine.gov/revenue/homepage.html

Thomaston Town Meeting Monday, January 26th at 7:00 p.m.

The town of Thomaston will hold an informational town meeting tonight, Monday January 26th, in Watts Hall at 7:00 p.m. to discuss the T.I.F. Proposal. This meeting will be followed by a special town meeting vote on February 10th.

The T.I.F. Proposal under discussion is a proposal to reclassify parts of the town of Thomaston as a Tax Increment Finance District, whereby the land where the Maine State Prison formerly stood will be developed to attract new businesses, and the tax revenue generated by that development will be used retroactively to pay for the initial improvements to the land, and then for future civic and community improvements in other areas covered by the TIF district. Under the proposal, 70% of the tax income from areas in the TIF district will go specifically toward civic improvements, while the remainder will go to the town's General Fund.

The proposed district would cover the former prison site (referred to as the Thomaston Green), the Village Commercial District (compromising the main street mall businesses and the stretch of route one between the prison site and the Academy Building) and the Thomaston Academy Building. By including the road, Academy Building, and the commercial district, the tax revenue generated by development on the Thomaston Green can be used for improvements in all of those areas.

All community members are encouraged to attend tonight's meeting to learn more about the proposal. For more information about the TIF proposal, contact the Thomaston Town Office at 354-6107 or call the Library at 354-2453.

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